CASE STUDY BASED Qs
NETWORKING
CLASS 12th CS/IP
LOVEJEET ARORA
Question 1:
Tagore School, in Jaipur is starting up the network between its different wings. There are four
Buildings named as SENIOR, JUNIOR, ADMIN and HOSTEL as shown below:
SENIOR JUNIOR
HOSTEL ADMIN
The distance between various buildings
Number of Computers in Each Building
ADMIN TO SENIOR 200 M
ADMIN TO HOSTEL 50 M
SENIOR 130
ADMIN TO JUNIOR 150 M JUNIOR 80
JUNIOR TO HOSTEL 340 M HOSTEL 50
SENIOR TO HOSTEL 300 M ADMIN 160
SENIOR TO JUNIOR 250 M
(i) Suggest the cable layout of connections between the buildings.
(ii) Suggest the most suitable place (i.e., building) to house the server of this school, provide a
suitable reason.
(iii) Suggest the placement of the following devices with justification.
o Repeater
o Hub/Switch
(iv) The organisation also has inquiry office in another city about 50-60 km away in hilly region.
Suggest the suitable transmission media to interconnect to school and inquiry office out of the
following :
o Fiber optic cable
o Microwave
o Radiowave
Answer 1:
(i)
(ii) Server can be placed in the ADMIN building as it has the maxium number of computer.
(iii) Repeater can be placed between ADMIN
and SENIOR building as the distance is more than 110 m.
(iv) Radiowaves can be used in hilly regions as they can travel through obstacles.
Question 2:
Good Marks Public School in Shimla is setting up the network between its different wings. There
are 4 wings named as SENIOR(S), JUNIOR(J), ADMIN(A) and HOSTEL(H).
Distance between various wings: Number of Computers in each Wing
Wing A to Wing S 100 m Wing Number of
Wing A to Wing J 200 m Computers
Wing A to Wing H 400 m Wing A 20
Wing J to Wing H 450 m
Wing S 150
Wing S to Wing H 100 m
Wing S to Wing J 300 m Wing J 50
Wing H 25
(i) Suggest a suitable Topology for networking the computers of all wings.
(ii)Name the most suitable wing where the Server should be installed. Justify your answer.
(iii)Suggest where all should Hub(s)/Switch(es) be placed in the network.
(iv)Which communication medium would you suggest to connect this school with its main branch
in Delhi ?
Answer 2:
(i)
(ii) Server should be in Wing S as it has the maxi-mum number of computers.
(iii) All Wings need hub/switch as it has more thanone computer.
(iv) Since the distance is more, wireless transmission would be better. Radiowaves are reliable
and can travel through obstacles.
Question 3:
Star Info Solution is a professional consultancy company. The company is planning to set up their
new offices in India with its hub at Jaipur. As a network adviser, you have to understand their
requirement and suggest them the best available solutions. Their queries are mentioned as (i) to
(iv) below.
Physical Locations of the blocked of Company
(i) What will be the most appropriate block, where company should plan to install their
server?
(ii) Draw a block to cable layout to connect all the buildings in the most appropriate manner for
efficient communication.
(iii) What will be the best possible connectivity out of the following, you will suggest to connect
the new setup of offices in Bangalore with its London based office:
o Satellite Link
o Infrared
o Ethernet Cable
(iv) Which of the following device will be suggested by you to connect each computer in each of
the buildings:
o Switch
o Modem
o Gateway
Answer 3:
(i) Finance block because it has maximum
number of computers.
(ii)
(iii) Satellite link
(iv) Switch
Question 4:
Rehaana Medicos Center has set up its new center in Dubai. It has four buildings as shown in the
diagram given below:
Accounts Research Packaging Store
LAb Unit
As a network expert, provide the best possible answer for the following queries:
(i) Suggest a cable layout of connections between the buildings.
(ii) Suggest the most suitable place (i.e. building) to house the server of this organization.
(iii) Suggest the placement of the following device with justification:
(iv) Repeater (b) Hub/Switch
(v) Suggest a system (hardware/software) to prevent unauthorized access to or from the
network.
Answer 4:
(i) Layout 1
(ii) The most suitable place / building to house the server of this organization would be building
Research Lab, as this building contains the maximum number of computers.
(iii) Since the cabling distance between Accounts to Store is quite large, so a repeater would
ideally be needed along their path to avoid loss of signals during the course of data flow in
this route.
(iv) Firewall.
Question 5:
1. Expert Professional Global (EPG) is an online, corporate training provider company for IT
related courses. The company is setting up their new campus in Mumbai. You as a network
expert have to study the physical locations of various buildings and the number of
computers to be installed. In the planning phase, provide the best possible answer for the
Building to Building distances (in Mtrs.)
(i) Suggest the most appropriate building, where EPG should plan to install the server.
(ii) Suggest the most appropriate building to building cable layout to connect all three buildings
for efficient communication.
(iii) Which type of network out of the following is formed by connecting the computers of these
three buildings?
o LAN
o MAN
o WAN
(iv) Which wireless channel out of the following should be opted by EPG to connect to students
of all over the world?
o Infrared
o Microwave
o Satellite
nswer 5:
(i) Faculty Studio Building
(ii) Bus Topology
(iii) LAN
(iv) Satellite
Question 6:
“Learn India” is a skill development community which has an aim to promote the standard of skills
in the society. It is planning to set up its training centres in multiple towns and villages Pan India
with its head offices in the nearest cities. They have created a model of their network with a city
ABC Nagar, a town (UVW town) and 3 villages.
As a network consultant, you have to suggest the best network related solutions for their issues/
problems raised in (i) to (iv), keeping in mind the distances between various locations and other
given parameters.
Note:
– In Villagers, there are community centers, in which one room has been given as training entrer
to this organization to install computers.
– The organization has got financial support from the government and top Multinational Organi-
zations.
(i) Suggest the most appropriate location of the SERVER in the Cluster (out of the 4 locations),
to get the best and effective connectivity. Justify your answer.
(ii) Suggest the best wired medium and draw the cable layout (location to location) to efficiently
connect various locations within the Cluster.
(iii) Which hardware device will you suggest to connect all the computers within each location of
(iv) Which service/protocol will be most helpful to conduct live interactions of Expersts from
Head Office and peole at all locations of Cluster?
Answer 6:
(i) Best location for the server is UVW-TOWN, because it is approximately equidistant from
the village P, Q and R.
(ii) For connectivity between UVW-TOWN to head office is optic Fiber and to connect the
villages, P, Q and R with server at UVW- TOWN is co-axial cable.
(iii) The villages R Q and R can be connected with server at UVW-TOWN by a Hub and the head
office is connected by a Bus topology.
(iv) Between head office and UVWTOWN
we recommend for Bus topology, so HTTP protocol and other terminal can be connected by
UDP or FTP protocols.
Question 7:
Raj IT Solutions located in the hilly area of Nanital. The companies are located in four different,
blocks whose layout is shown in the following figure. Answer the questions (i) to (iv) with the
relevant justifi-cations.
Distance between various Blocks : Number of Computers in each Wing
Block A to Block C 50 m
Wing Number of
Block A to Block D 100 m
Computers
Block B to Block C 40 m
Block A 25
Block B to Block D 70 m
Block B 50
Block C to Block D 125 m
Block C 20
Block A to Block B 75 m
-
Block D 120
(i) Suggest a suitable network topology between the blocks.
(ii) Which is the most suitable block to house the server of this organization?
(iii) Suggest the placement of the following devices with justification
o Repeater
o Switch
(iv) The organization is planning to link the whole blocks to its marketing Office in Delhi. Since
cable connection is not possible from Shimla, suggest a way to connect it with high speed.
Answer 7:
(i) Suitable topology is bus topology.
(ii) The most suitable block for hosting server is BLOCK-D because this block has maximumnumber
of computers.
(iii) Switch is a device used to segment network into different sub-networks so switch will existin all the
blocks. Since distance between BLOCK-D and BLOCK-C is large so repeater will beinstall between
BLOCK-D and BLOCK-C.
(iv) The most economic way to connect it with a reasonable high speed would be the use radiowave
transmission, as they are easy to install, can travel long distance and penetrate buildings easily, so
they are used for communication, both indoors and outdoors. Radiowaves also have the
advantage of being omni-directional. They can travel in all the directions from the source, so that
the transmitter and receiver do not have to be carefullyaligned physically.
Question 8:
Zigma Institute is planning to set up its center in Bikaner with four specialized blocks for Medicine,
Management, Law courses along with an Admission block in separate buildings. The physical
distances between these blocks and the number of computers to be installed in these blocks are
given below. You as a network expert have to answer the queries raised by their board of directors
as given in (i) to (iv).
Admin Managemen Medicine
Law
distances between various locations in meters:
Admin Block to Management Block 60
Admin Block to Medicine Block 40
Admin Block to Law Block 60
Management Block to Medicine Block 50
Management Block to Law Block 110
Law Block to Medicine Block 40
Number of Computers installed at various locations:
Admin Block 150
Management Block 70
Medicine Block 20
Law Block 50
(i). Suggest the most suitable location to install the main server of this institution to get efficient
connectivity.
(ii). Suggest by drawing the best cable layout for effective network connectivity of the blocks
having server with all the other blocks.
(iii). Suggest the devices to be installed in each of these buildings for connecting computers
installed within the building out of the following:
• Modem
• Switch
• Gateway
• Router
(iv) Suggest the most suitable wired medium for efficiently connecting each computer installed in
every building out of the following network cables:
• Coaxial Cable
• Ethernet Cable
• Single Pair
• Telephone Cable.
Answer 8:
i) Admin Block
(ii)
(iii) Modem or Switch or Router
(iv)Ethernet Cable
Question 9:
Knowledge Supplement Organisation has set up its new centre at Mangalore for its office and web
based activities. It has 4 blocks of buildings as shown in the diagram below:
Block
C
Block Block
A
D
Block
distances between various blocks Number of Computers
Black A to Block B 50 m Black A 25
Block B to Block C 150 m Block B 50
Block C to Block D 25 m Block C 125
Block A to Block D 170 m Block D 10
Block B to Block D 125 m
Block A to Block C 90 m
(i) Suggest a cable layout of connections between the blocks.
(ii) Suggest the most suitable place (i.e. block) to house the server of this organization with a
suitable reason.
(iii) Suggest the placement of the following devices with justification
(a) Repeater
(b) Hub/Switch
(iv) The organization is planning to link its front office situated in the city in a hilly region where
cable connection is not feasible, suggest an economic way to connect it with reasonably high
speed?
Ans 9 : (i)
Block
Block
A
Block
Block
(ii) The most suitable place / block to house the server of this organisation would be Block C, as
this block contains the maximum number of computers, thus decreasing the cabling cost for most
of the computers as well as increasing the efficiency of the maximum computers in the network.
(iii) (a) For Layout 1, since the cabling distance between Blocks A and C, and that between B and
C are quite large, so a repeater each, would ideally be needed along their path to avoid loss of signals
during the course of data flow in these routes.
(b) A hub/switch each would be needed in all the blocks, to interconnect the group of cables from
the different computers in each block.
(iv)The most economical way to connect it with a reasonable high speed would be to use radio wave
transmission, as they are easy to install, can travel long distances, and penetrate buildings easily, so
they are widely used for communication, both indoors and outdoors. Radio waves also have the
advantage of being omni directional, which is they can travel in all the directions from the source,
so that the transmitter and receiver do not have to be carefully aligned physically.
Question 10:
Gyan Vidya Bharti in Srinagar is setting up the network between its different wings. There are 4
wings named as SENIOR(S), MIDDLE(M), JUNIOR(J) and OFFICE(O).
Distance between the various wings are given below: Number of Computers
Wing O to Wing S 100m Wing O 10
Wing O to Wing M 200m Wing S 200
Wing O to Wing J 400m Wing M 100
Wing S to Wing M 300m Wing J 50
Wing S to Wing J 100m
Wing J to Wing M 450m
(i) Suggest a suitable Topology for networking the computer of all wings.
(ii) Name the wing where the server to be installed. Justify your answer.
(iii) Suggest the placement of Hub/Switch in the network.
(iv) Mention an economic technology to provide internet accessibility to all wings.
Ans10:
• Star or Bus or any other valid topology.
• Wing S, because maximum number of computers are located at Wing S.
• Hub/ Switch in all the wings.
• Coaxial cable/Modem/LAN/TCP-IP/Dialup/DSL/Leased Lines or any other
validtechnology.